All the signs are that Commodore International Ltd is now getting serious about Unix but still there is no actual product. In February the company established a Unix marketing group, and in May it was talking in terms of competition with Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard with the Amiga 3000. Now it’s hired its first Unix product manager and wants to start shipping the Amiga 3000UX in January. The only problem is that it doesn’t yet have a released version of Unix System V.4 or much software to run on the 68030-based machine – the reason it won’t be making any announcements at the forthcoming Comdex show. Instead it is aiming for UniForum. In the UK, the company showed its expandable Amiga 3500 at the Business Computer Show in Earls Court at the end of last month, and it’s this machine, and a possible tower configuration, that will be targeted at the Unix market.
